Apartment tenants say sudden eviction was surprise, company says they had repeated notices

Residents of a Garden City apartment building say they had to scramble to find new places to live Wednesday.

Horry County code enforcement officials deemed the building in the Cambridge Apartments complex to be unfit for occupancy Tuesday, and tenants in four of the eight units were given 24 hours to move out.

The tenants say the sudden eviction caught them off-guard.

"All we can do is look for another place to live," said tenant David Brouwer.

The Noble Company manages the property, serving as agents for the homeowners association.

Company representatives told us Thursday they gave the owners of the condo units repeated notices, starting January 22nd, that the front stairwell would need to be replaced, and that during the construction, the tenants would have to vacate for four days.

The managers say the tenants, for whatever reason, wouldn't leave.

Manager Jennifer Harmon says at one point, the contractor put up plywood over the front to try to keep the tenants out so the work could get started, but the tenants took the plywood down.

"Unfortunately the tenant in one of the units began removing those boards, and so the contractors put them back up, they took pictures again of both the before and the after, and the tenant took them down again," said Harmon.

Harmon says it got to the point The Noble Company asked Horry County Code Enforcement to step in and condemn the front of the building, to force the tenants out so the delayed work could begin.

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Apartment tenants say sudden eviction was surprise, company says they had repeated notices